Heinrich Walle

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Heinrich Gustav Josef Gottfried Walle (born September 21, 1941 in Limburg ) is a German naval officer ( retired frigate captain ), military historian and author.

Life

As a student he belonged to the Bund New Germany . From 1963 he was a naval officer. In 1979 he was at Michael Salewski at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn with a thesis on the influence of meteorological navigation on the development of the German transoceanic sailing ships from 1868 to 1914 to the Dr. phil. PhD. From 1979 he worked in the Military History Research Office (MGFA). In 1994 he retired under the rank of frigate captain. After his retirement he studied Catholic theology.

Since 2001 he has worked as a lecturer for history didactics at the Historical Institute of the University of Cologne . He is deputy editor-in-chief of the popular magazine Military and History and editor of the specialist magazine MarineForum .

Walle has been a member of the German Maritime Institute since 1973 . In 2006 he became chairman of the Historical Shipbuilding Working Group , he is also a member of the scientific advisory board of the German Society for Shipping and Marine History (DGSM) and advisor to the German Navy Federation .

Walle published in the fields of military, naval, and engineering history .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The use of naval forces in the service of foreign policy. Lectures at the historical-tactical conference of the fleet in 1981 (= series of publications of the German Marine Institute . Volume 3). Edited by the German Marine Institute, Mittler, Herford u. a. 1983, ISBN 3-8132-0156-2 .
  • The naval officer as a leader in battle. Lectures at the historical-tactical conference of the fleet 1983 (= series of publications of the German Marine Institute . Volume 6). Edited by the German Marine Institute, Mittler, Herford u. a. 1984, ISBN 3-8132-0185-6 .
  • Seafaring and History . Edited by the German Marine Institute, Mittler, Herford 1986, ISBN 3-8132-0251-8 .
  • From peacekeeping to peacebuilding. German armed forces in transition . Edited by the Military History Research Office . Mittler, Herford u. a. 1991, ISBN 3-8132-0373-5 .
  • Ed .: uprising of conscience. Military resistance against Hitler and the Nazi regime 1933–1945. Catalog for the traveling exhibition . On behalf of the Military History Research Office. 4th edition, Mittler, Berlin a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-8132-0436-7 .
  • The tragedy of Oberleutnant zur See Oskar Kusch . On behalf of the Ranke Society and the German Marine Institute . Franz Steiner Verlag , Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-515-06841-4 .
  • Edited with Sigurd Hess , Guntram Schulze-Wegener : Faszination See. 50 years of the Navy of the Federal Republic of Germany . On behalf of the Military History Research Office. Mittler, Hamburg a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-8132-0838-9 .
  • With Sigurd Hess, Guntram Schulze-Wegener, Dieter Stockfisch: 50 years of the German Navy in the picture . Report Verlag, Bonn 2006, ISBN 978-3-932385-25-4 .
  • Ed .: Fifty years of sailing training ship Gorch Fock . On behalf of the German Marine Institute. Koehler, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7822-0980-9 .
  • Square sailors in Germany. From the sea control room to the Gorch Fock. With 44 tables and 19 geographical maps (= small series of publications on military and naval history . Volume 17). Winkler, Bochum 2009, ISBN 978-3-89911-117-0 .
  • Ed .: Sicherheit zur See 49th Historical-Tactical Conference of the Fleet 2009 . Winkler, Bochum 2010, ISBN 978-3-89911-140-8 .
  • Ed .: 100 Years of Naval Aviation, 1913 to 2013 . On behalf of the German Maritime Institute. Mittler, Hamburg a. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-8132-0947-1 .
  • With Moritz Brake: 60 years of the German Navy in the picture . ES Mittler & Sohn, Hamburg a. a. 2016, ISBN 978-3-8132-0965-5 .
  • Karl-Theodor Schleicher, Heinrich Walle (ed.): From field post letters from young Christians 1939–1945. A contribution to the history of Catholic youth in the field. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08759-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Theodor Schleicher / Heinrich Walle (eds.), From field post letters of young Christians 1939–1945. A contribution to the history of Catholic youth in the field. Stuttgart 2005. p. 10.
  2. ^ Karl-Theodor Schleicher / Heinrich Walle (eds.), From field post letters of young Christians 1939–1945. A contribution to the history of Catholic youth in the field. Stuttgart 2005. p. 10.
  3. ^ Heinrich Walle , University of Cologne, accessed on August 8, 2014.
  4. ↑ uni-trier.de Dr. Heinrich Walle (retired frigate captain, military historian) Vita, accessed on November 17, 2018
  5. ^ Francis R. Nicosia, Lawrence D. Stokes †: Germans Against Nazism: Nonconformity, Opposition and Resistance in the Third Reich: Essays in Honor of Peter Hoffmann Berghahn Books 2015, ISBN 1-78238-816-8 . Excerpts: p. 403.
  6. ↑ Federal Cross of Merit for Advisory Board member Dr. Heinrich Walle ( Memento from August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). DGSM, March 22, 2013.
  7. ↑ Felix Römer, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz: Karl-Theodor Schleicher / Heinrich Walle (eds.): Field post letters from young Christians 1939–1945. In: Review journal sehepunkte. Retrieved November 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Walle, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walle, Heinrich Gustav Josef Gottfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer, military historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Limburg